Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
No, these are two different units (like miles and nautical miles), not just a technicality. 1 PB isn’t “technically” 1 PiB. If it was, there wouldn’t be two distinct definitions.
1 Petabyte (PB) is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes while 1 Pebibyte (PiB) is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. They are not the same. These are two different systems, respectively: metric (10^n) and binary (2^n).
That image doesn’t include everything lol. You’re mixing things up.
That image shows a Petabit (Pb) and Petabyte (PB), we are saying there’s another: Pebibits (Pib) and Pebibyte (PiB).
What you’re showing happens with internet plans throughput (Petabit) and vendors disk size (Petabyte). What I’m saying happens when you compare vendors disk size (Petabyte) and OS total disk space (Pebibyte). A lot of programmers use the latter due to its most accurate memory representation.
That’s alright lol. I don’t know how familiar you are with Reddit/Lemmy, but you can see the exact comment I responded, that’s what I’m addressing.
It’s natural to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of responses, people love to point out what’s wrong when they see it. Don’t mind the negative/ironic nancies, everybody learns something new everyday, nobody knows everything. Remember to take a breather and to drink some water k?
Your table should use the proper units KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, … for the multiples of 1024 bytes and not kB, MB, GB, TB, … which indicate multiples of 1000 bytes.
I am pretty sure they are just jokingly trying to blow your mind with a list of other measurements.
It just looks like they googled system of units and expected it to be the same as what I am talking about.
It is the same as what you are talking about. Giga and Peta are listed prefixes that are 1,000,000 apart in the chart.
Oh yes. 1 PB is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1,125,899,906,842,620 specifically. I didn’t click link. He responded like I was wrong.
He responded like you were posting unit definition and jokingly being worried you’d post all of them, e.g. TIL 1 kilometer is 1000 meters.
Terrible joke if so lol. That would be insane to list all of them.
1 PB is 10^15 B.
1 PiB is 2^50 B = 1024^5 B= 1,125,899,906,842,620 B
That is what I just commented lol.
No, 1 PB isn’t “specifically” 1 PiB.
1 Petabyte is equal to 1,000,000 gigabytes or 1,048,576 if you want to get technical. This is all that is being said here.
No, these are two different units (like miles and nautical miles), not just a technicality. 1 PB isn’t “technically” 1 PiB. If it was, there wouldn’t be two distinct definitions.
!confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
There! You happy?! Since everybody wants to include everything.
That chart is outdated.
1 Petabyte (PB) is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes while 1 Pebibyte (PiB) is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. They are not the same. These are two different systems, respectively: metric (10^n) and binary (2^n).
There. Since people want to include everything.
That image doesn’t include everything lol. You’re mixing things up.
That image shows a Petabit (Pb) and Petabyte (PB), we are saying there’s another: Pebibits (Pib) and Pebibyte (PiB).
What you’re showing happens with internet plans throughput (Petabit) and vendors disk size (Petabyte). What I’m saying happens when you compare vendors disk size (Petabyte) and OS total disk space (Pebibyte). A lot of programmers use the latter due to its most accurate memory representation.
Listen, the title was the only thing I was talking about. Then this turned into chaos.
That’s alright lol. I don’t know how familiar you are with Reddit/Lemmy, but you can see the exact comment I responded, that’s what I’m addressing.
It’s natural to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of responses, people love to point out what’s wrong when they see it. Don’t mind the negative/ironic nancies, everybody learns something new everyday, nobody knows everything. Remember to take a breather and to drink some water k?
Nobody, except you, was talking about bits.
1 Megabyte = 1000 · 1000 byte = 8 Megabit
1 Mebibyte = 1024 · 1024 byte = 8 Mebibit
Your table should use the proper units KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, … for the multiples of 1024 bytes and not kB, MB, GB, TB, … which indicate multiples of 1000 bytes.
Others mentioned bits!